Dig Updates

Day Thirty-Five A record-breaking open day The visitor record tumbled today as we welcomed almost 1,300 people to the Ness ...
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Day Thirty-Four Puzzling developments and another 'butterfly' stone Cleaning, planning and photography occupied much of today at the Ness, all ...
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Day Thirty-Three Stone Age slow cooking... A huge amount of planning, drawing and photography is taking place on site today ...
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Day Thirty-Two Structure Twenty-Seven revelations We are nearing the end of excavation for this year, with six days left of ...
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Day Thirty-One A building older than Structure Twenty-Seven? “Execrable” is such a good word. It described last Friday’s weather perfectly, ...
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Day Thirty Decorated stones and technical wizardry The weather is execrable today, utterly execrable. There was heavy rain in the ...
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Day Twenty-Nine 3D imaging to the rescue Lots of interest today centred around Structure Twenty-Six, which has been painstakingly excavated ...
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Day Twenty-Eight 'Gruelling, but fantastic' Work is continuing apace in Structure One, with the removal of the Phase Two curving ...
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Day Twenty-Seven Wall's path detected on a day of delights Sometimes, just sometimes, there comes a flash of illumination like ...
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Day Twenty-Six Water, water everywhere It was supposed to rain this morning, so site director Nick kept the diggers away ...
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Day Twenty-Five A box, an entrance and the revenge of Trench T There were a number of interesting developments at ...
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Day Twenty-Four Great walls and long-distance links Orkney, or at least the part on which the Ness of Brodgar is ...
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